Nice video that clearly shows a unique tool for wire tightening! However, a simple rake or small shovel repair can easily be done by splitting the end of the tool about 1 inch along the sides at three equally spaced locations with a Dremel disk and then fusing the rake to the wooden shaft using a pipe clamp. Because you have split the tool's receiving end, each 1/3 piece of metal can squeeze deep into the wood for a really strong repair. I hope this too helps with your repairs!

What an ingenious tool! You have some really good fabrication skills IMSAIGuy! Thanks for today's lesson sir! Fred

When you removed the nail and slid the rake down it was half repaired. You only need to put the nail back in. "KISS" keep it super simple.

A nice quick fix.Thanks for the look.

It would be more tight if you leave a nail in between the two wire groups. When you will use the tool after shocks it will be loose again

Great vid, thanks for sharing!! Those tools and their variants are simply gorgeous. I made the second style and works like a charm. Ultra handy and versatile!!! Cheers from Alberta-Canada!!!

Good video. I would have split the metal end of the rake to make it easier to squeeze together. An advantage of your second tool over the first tool is that the second tool will maintain tension on the wire if you let go of it. In contrast, the first tool relies on continuous hand strength to maintain the final bit of wire tension. I made my own tool using a turnbuckle design shown in other videos.

I bought a small version of that tool at a motorcycle show 20 years ago I’ve used it once or twice

Should have çut slit in metal part of rake

Instead of a nail through the rake head and into the handle, you've got a single strand of wire between two sets of 3 loops of wire. Nice tool though, it'll be GREAT on garden hoses, auto hoses, air hoses (recently proven!) , etc. The comments about splitting the head of the rake are good ideas. THEN your handle will break before the connection would.

For your first prototype tool, just use a bolt and ratchet wrench for the handle.

Nice hack! Maybe one could use that technique to hold a TO-3 power transistor down to a heat sink ;)

My dad used to use bailing wire to strengthen tool handles and his trick was a little hole, one beng the original holee in the metal, and one just above in the wood. I'm not sure how you would also use the clamptite AND use those holes, but i would pull between the two holes pulling the tool on to the handle. I'm just learning how to use mine and do not have a clue so far, Also,that pair of "dikes" (term used in the electronic industry for diagonal cutting pliers) , I usually decided to only use them with copper wire as steel would wreck a typical pair. Are these different ?

Epoxy and then clamp to make a chemical and physical connection. Thoughts?